Cocktail shaker



Aug. 24, 1937. H. c. GESSLER COCKTAIL SHAKER Filed Sept. 27, 1935 IN ENTOR. BY 6&,

- ATTORNEY:

Patented Aug. 24, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

COCKTAIL SHAKER Harry G. Gessler, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application September 27, 1935, Serial No. 42,387

5 Claims.

10: cocktail shaker.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of the nature set forth, which shall reliably, neatly and compactly hold a settable dial exposing means, in an improved l5; manner such that no spaces or grooves will occur in which liquids and solids might accumulate and be diificult to clean.

Another object of the invention is to furnish a device of the type mentioned having improved simplified means for holding a dial and a movable window plate therefor and yet without permitting the latter to rub or wear the indicia carrying face of the dial.

Another object of the invention is to provide 25 a device of the class alluded to having improved bearing and holding means for a dial and the rotatable window plate thereof, such that the latter is releasably held in set position with a suitable degree of friction that will not vary with slight discrepancies that result in constructions produced on a quantity'basis;

A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved nonwarping dial, mounted in an improved manner; also an improved indicator arrangement such that difierent legends and titles therefor may be arranged in spaced relation to each other but in a highly compact manner, and with the legend and its title exposed to view so as to read in one upright direction;

40 also to provide a cocktail shaker having a screen permitting complete draining of the liquid con tents; and further, to provide an improved devicehaving relatively few and simple parts, and which is inexpensive to manufacture and assemble, durable, convenient, reliable and efiicient to a high degree.

50 or attaching portion.

A still further object of the invention is the provisionof an improved method of making a device such as a closure having an annular lip Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With ,the aforesaid objects in view, the inven- 55 tion consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustratedin the annexed drawing. wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a View in elevation of a device embodying the invention with parts removed and other parts in section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of the combined closure and indicator embodying the invention.

Fig. 3 is a transverse central vertical sectional viewthereof. v

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the dial in removed condition.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of theclosure with parts including the dial removed.

Figs. ,6 and 7 are vertical sectional views showing successive steps in the manufacture of the closure.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view' taken on the line 88 of Fig. 1.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the artto which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, l denotes a device embodying the invention. The same may illustratively include a cocktail shaker or other containing means, which may comprise a conventional glass receptacle H, to the top of which may be attached a spout element l2. The attachment may be by means of a cylindrical flange l3 on the element l2 having 'asnug frictional or ground fit withthe adjacent rim portion of the receptacle II. The element l2 may taper upwardly and may terminate in an open attaching portion or cylindrical tube I4 for a suitable closure. At the base of the tube M, an annular portion I may be outwardly pressed to provide a corresponding internal groove in which there may be secured a perforated plate or screen l6. As thus far described the structure and ar-- eral edge of the screen to facilitate complete and ready drainage of the contents of the receptacle I, unlike the devices of the prior art in which all perforations in the screen were sub- 5 stantially spaced from the edge thereof.

Removably attached to the spout element I2 is a combined closure and indicator device H3. The same may include one element to function as a closure and an associated means adapted to indicate the formulas of different drinks that may be mixed in the cocktail shaker. Accordingly the indicator means is settable and therefore includes a movable portion. The device l8 hereinafter described in detail, solves a problem which will now be explained by reference to the normal use of the cocktail shaker.

As is well known, the spout element I2 is removed, and the ingredients of the drinks according to the usual formulas are poured into the receptacle H and ice cubes placed in the latter. The spout element I2 is then replaced and a closure means applied thereto, whereupon the cocktail shaker is vigorously shaken to agi-- tate its contents. Then the closure means is removed, and the drink is poured from the cocktail shaker through the tubular portion l4, with the screen I6 holding back the particles of ice. In pouring the drink, some liquid may run down along the outside of the spout element |2. Such liquid, due to the ingredients thereof, has the capacity of rapidly drying and caking, and would tend to cause a movable indicator portion to stick and the dial therefor to become soiled. These possibilities are eliminated by my invention in which the indicator means forms a portion of the closure and hence is removed with the latter before any pouring is done. Furthermore, the arrangement is such that any wetting of the closure, such as occurs internally thereof, will not affect the indicator means.

The device l8 may include a closure element l9. Mounted on the closure element externally thereof is a dial plate 20 and a settable window element 2|.

The closure element I9 may include a generally cylindrical side wall 22 and a top wall 23 therefor. At the junction of the side and top walls is a securing means for the window element 2|. The securing means may be in the 0 nature of an annular flange or lip portion 24. To afford a snug seat for the dial and to function as a spacer between the wall 23 and the window element 2|, the said annular lip may project somewhat above the top wall 23. In

55 general, it will be seen that the lip 24 consists of an outward and reversely folded portion, which is compressed or closed so as to present a substantially continuous, unbroken and ungrooved internal surface. Centrally of the top wall 23 60 is an integral upward projecting lug portion 25 which is preferably of irregular or square formation and which may be surmounted by an upwardly curved bearing portion or surface 26. The top wall 23 may as a whole be upwardly convexed 65 to provide a curved seat for a purpose hereinafter described.

The dial 2!] may be of circular form and may be adapted to snugly fit in the flange or lip 24. It may be convexed for stiffness and rigidity and 70 so as to prevent distortion and consequent wearing of parts upon rotation of the window element 2|. It may carry any suitable indicia, preferably engraved or plated thereon, and it will be understood that the particular reason for form- 75 ing the indicia on a separate plate instead of on the top wall 23 directly is that the cost of production is rendered much less as it is much simpler and cheaper to treat the dial plate alone. Centrally of the dial plate is provided an irregular or square shaped opening 25a adapted to snugly fit the projection 25.

The top face of the dial plate may be divided by radial lines 21 into 8 zones which carry different formulae at 28 for as many different drinks. Intermediate of the zones at 28 and the central opening 26 are a series of names or titles at 29 for the different formulae, each name at 29 being angularly offset 90 degrees, in the clockwise direction from the formula at 28 that corresponds thereto. It will be understood that while the printing at 28 extends along arcs concentric with the dial, the printing at 29 extends radially of the dial, so that a formula and its title can be read at a glance as hereinafter described in detail, because all of the letters to be observed extend in an upright or other like direction.

The window element 2| may include a wall 30 having a depending peripheral flange 3| that may be knurled and whose lower edge portion may be annularly folded or spun inward at 32 to snugly engage under the lip 24. It will be seen that the wall 30 is convexed in conformity to the dial 2!], and is maintained in slightly spaced relation above the dial by the lip 24 and the central lug 25. Thus there is no possibility that the rotatable window element may scratch or mar the dial surface.

The wall 30 may comprise a generally arcuate window opening 33 adapted to register with one of the zones 28 according as the said element is rotatably set. arranged to register with the title of the exposed formula, and hence is disposed radially, and extends almost to the center of the wall 30 for compactness, and further is spaced approximately 90 degrees from the center of the opening 33.

The device |8 provides that the dial shall snugly fit the wall 23 and may be secured with a slightly Wedge fit within the annular lip 24. However, that may be, the center lug 25 engaged in the hole 25a of the dial prevents the latter from turning without requiring any other attaching means.

In order to assure that the window element 2| may be maintained against accidental movement from set position, frictional engagement may be utilized, for example, at the portion 32. It is preferred not to place reliance solely upon this,-

because with slight variations in production, the frictional engagement may sometimes be too loose for some devices and too tight for others. Hence I utilize the curved top 26 as a hearing which may be slightly elevated above the arc of the lip 24. Now when the edge 32 is spun to secure the dial, the possibility of the lip 24 being too tight or sticking between the spun edge 32 and the top wall 30 is avoided. Hence production may be arranged that a frictional retardation may be obtained for the rotary window element without the danger of binding due to ordinary variations that arise in manufacture.

In use, the operator turns the window element 2| by grasping the knurled edge portion 3|, and sets the element so as to have the name of the required drink appear at the window 34. The corresponding formula will then appear at the window 33. The drink is then mixed, the cocktail shaker closed by applying the device I8 so that the neck I4 is snugly frictionally received A second window opening 34 is 9 in the wall 22, and the contents are agitated. Then the device I8 is removed by grasping the wall 22, the contents poured out, and another drink mixed as the window element 2| remains 5 in set position. No liquid will. enter between the parts 20, 23 and 39 to cause sticking of the window element or to soil the dial, because the device I8 is removed to pour the contents of the cocktail shaker. No groove occurs in the lip 24 to lo require troublesome cleaning.

The method of making the device 3 will now be described. The closure element I9 is first formed as an ordinary cap 35, having a cylindrical side wall 36, and a convex top wall 31.

. Then the top wall is pressed downward while the side wall may be pressed outward, if desired, to readily produce a bead like annular projection 38. At the same time the lug 25 may be pressed upwardly. It is seen that the head 38 provides 20 an inner annular groove 39 that may be closed by compressing the bead. The element I9 is thus produced, the dial 20 applied, then the window element 2| and the flange 3i spun into engagement with the lip 24 to complete the device. It will. be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made in the device as shown in the drawing, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being defined in 3 the following claims.

I claim:

1. A device including a. closure cap having a cylindrical side wall and a top wall, said cap having an outwardly pressed annular bead that 35 is internally closed, said bead being located at the junction of said walls, indicia on the top wall, and a window element for said indicia annularly engaged with said bead for rotation.

2. A device including a. closure cap having a 40 cylindrical side wall and a top wall, said cap having an outwardly pressed portion, said portion extending above an adjacent part of the top wall, a dial on the top wall, and means to control the exposed portion of the face of the dial, said means resting on said pressed portion above the dial and being movably secured to said pressed portion.

3. A device including a closure cap having a. side wall, a top wall, said cap having an outwardly and upwardly pressed annular bead at the junction betwen the side and top walls, a dial, said bead providing a seat for the dial above the top wall. and extending above the dial, a Window element extending over the bead in spaced overlying relation to the dial, said element being rotatably secured to the bead, and the top wall having a projection extending through the dial and engaging the same against rotation, said projection affording a central bearing portion for the window element to facilitate easy frictional rotation thereof.

4. A device including a closure cap having a side wall, a top wall, said cap having an outwardly and upwardly pressed annular bead at the junction between the side and top walls, a dial, said bead providing a seat for the dial above the top wall and extending above the dial, a window element seated on the bead in spaced overlying relation to the dial, said window element being annularly rotatably secured to the dial, and the top wall having a central projection extending into the dial for preventing rotation thereof.

5. A device including a closure cap having a side wall, a top wall, said cap having an outwardly and upwardly pressed annular bead at the junction between the side and top Walls, a dial, said bead providing a seat for the dial above the top wall and extending above the dial, a window element extending over the bead in spaced overlying relation to the dial, said element being rotatably secured to the bead, and the latter being pressed closed so as to present a. continuous internal uniform surface for the cap.

HARRY C. GESSLER. 

